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Facts

Born 1333? • Valenciennes • France
Died c.1400 • Belgium
Notable Works “Chronicles” • “L’Horloge amoureux” • “Méliador”
Movement / Style rhétoriqueurs
Subjects Of Study Hundred Years’ War

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Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.
Charles VI of France
Jean Froissart (seated), writing his Chroniques, miniature from a mid-15th-century manuscript; in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris (Ms. 5190).
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Wace
Anglo-Norman author
Chastellain, Georges
Georges Chastellain
Burgundian author
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet
Aubigné, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.
Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné
French soldier and author
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Gilles Li Muisis
French poet
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Jean-François Sarasin
French author
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Henri Martin
French historian
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Ambrose d’Évreux
French poet
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Jean Molinet
French poet and chronicler
Clément Marot, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Bibliothèque Protestante, Paris.
Clément Marot
French poet
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Alain Chartier
French author
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Eustache Deschamps
French writer
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
La Marche, detail of an engraving
Olivier de La Marche
Burgundian author
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Jean Le Bel
French historian
Christine de Pisan
Christine de Pisan
French writer
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Jean Lemaire de Belges
Belgian poet
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist

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